Hi, I'm seeing some unusual cpu usage pattern in our cache farm as well. we have 3 cache connected to one wccpv1 router: 1. 2.66GHz P4 with 1GB RAM, 128M squid mem, 12GB aufs cachedir. RHL 7.3 10:57am up 117 days, 2:26, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.35, 0.31 65 processes: 64 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.2% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 0.1% idle Mem: 1015748K av, 1004084K used, 11664K free, 0K shrd, 12368K buff Swap: 1052248K av, 632K used, 1051616K free 32908K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 803 nobody 17 0 326M 326M 1320 S 55.1 32.8 33841m squid 2. 3.2GHz P4 HT with 1GB RAM, 128M squid mem, 12GB aufs cachedir. RHL 7.3 10:57am up 116 days, 14:23, 1 user, load average: 0.91, 0.79, 0.44 63 processes: 62 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 3.1% user, 18.0% system, 0.0% nice, 77.1% idle CPU1 states: 0.1% user, 11.1% system, 0.0% nice, 87.0% idle Mem: 1023688K av, 1011440K used, 12248K free, 0K shrd, 21424K buff Swap: 1052248K av, 19808K used, 1032440K free 27100K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 24046 nobody 16 0 287M 284M 14120 S 18.9 28.5 3785m squid 3. 2.8GHz P4 with 1GB RAM, 128M squid mem 12GB aufs cachedir. CentOS 4.4 top - 10:53:56 up 46 days, 31 min, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.06, 0.09 Tasks: 49 total, 2 running, 47 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 2.0% us, 1.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 92.0% id, 4.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.7% si Mem: 1034528k total, 1021380k used, 13148k free, 126964k buffers Swap: 2096472k total, 112k used, 2096360k free, 430644k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5152 nobody 15 0 374m 365m 1424 S 3.3 36.2 676:22.76 squid All of the above squid boxes receive equal amount of hash bits from wccp. can you link anything ?? Thanks. On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > getting this under moderate load (highest is 2* this). > > > > 2/3 of time is system time. is it OK? can squid be made faster. it's using > > diskd, disks are much less loaded than CPU > > Which version of Squid are you using? Whats the request rate at the time > Squid is using that much CPU? Whats the hardware spec? > > > Adrian > > -- Manoj Rajkarnikar System Administrator Vianet Communications Pvt Ltd Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal. (PH)977-1-5546410